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Silver is a tiny bit poison. Enough to kill bacteria.

So silverware was made to make eating a bit more sanitary, the silver killing off some of the bad bacteria.

Plus it was something only the wealthy could afford. Nobody with wealth wants to eat with the same instruments as the lower class people.

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Well, theoretically, if there hadn't been a problem, then there would have been no need for the invention of silverware. I imagine that not everyone enjoyed the greasy and dirty fingers and faces that result from eating without utensils. Both the fork and the knife seem to be well suited to eating meat, and the spoon developed for soups and porridge type things, so you didn't have to drink out of the bowl. Unfortunately, these things were invented so long ago it is impossible to go back and find out the exact reasons.

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it was first invented in 1700.

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